WASHINGTON, February 10, 2014 – Recently Senate Jim Inhofe (R-OKL) and Congressman Dennis Ross (R-FLA) introduced a new bill in Congress. While as a general rule any new law Congress wants to pass is a bad idea, this one is an exception to the rule.

The bill they introduced was the Disaster Savings Account Act of 2014. The gist of the act is that it will allow taxpayers to deposit up to $5000 into a tax deductible savings account that would be used to pay for the costs of repairs after a disaster.

The idea that people at risk from natural disasters should prepare and pay for part of their repairs is a good idea. It is a far better idea than unrealistic subsidized federal disaster insurance.

As good an idea as this is, it is only a start. But it does attack a crucial problem.

One of the greatest threats to liberty is the progressive income tax.

There is a reason the left loves the progressive income tax. It is the greatest threat to freedom and liberty the government has ever created. All an income tax does is provide for the easy, endless expansion of government.

Conservatives will never be able to shrink the size of government until the engine of government growth is shut down. That engine is the income tax.

How do conservatives shut the income tax down?

Conservatives want the income tax controlled or abolished, but among the general public, it is an issue that does not even show up on the radar.

How do we destroy the income tax?

We borrow a page from the left’s playbook.

The left likes to take a system that is working and break it. Then they claim the only solution to fix the system they broke is for their idiotic idea. We are seeing this in healthcare right now. Obamacare is breaking our healthcare industry and soon enough the left will come out and claim the system is broken and the only solution is single payer.

The same is true with immigration. They broke the system by not enforcing the laws now they claim the only solution is Amnesty.

The Cloward-Piven strategy is to overwhelm the free market system with so many demands that it cannot cope and therefore will collapse.

Why can’t conservatives do the same thing to the tax system.

Rush Limbaugh claimed after the 2012 election that one of the reasons Barack Obama won reelection was that he promised “free stuff.” Conservatives don’t believe in the government giving away free stuff to win elections. But conservatives can do the next best thing.

Conservatives can condition people to the idea of keeping all of the money they earn.

If conservatives want to destroy the income tax, and that should be a major conservative goal, there is only one way to do it.

That is to bring it down the way the left wants to bring America down.

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Judson Phillips is the founder of Tea Party Nation, one of the largest Tea Party Groups in the country and the number one national tea party site on the Internet.
A lawyer by profession, Judson has been involved in politics since his teens. “Ronald Reagan inspired me,” he says.
Judson became involved in the Tea Party movement in February 2009 after hearing Rick Santelli’s rant on CNBC. “I heard there was going to be a Tea Party in Chicago inspired by Santelli, but didn’t know if anyone was doing a rally in Nashville where I was based. Finally I emailed Michelle Malkin and asked her if there was a Tea Party in Nashville. Malkin sent an email back saying, ‘No, why don’t you organize one?’ I did.”
The first Tea Party in Nashville was held late February 2009 which drew a crowd of about 600. Judson then organized the Tax Day Tea Party in Nashville, which drew over 10,000 people into downtown. It was at this time that Tea Party Nation was formed. Later that year, Judson decided to bring activists from across the country together, so he organized the first National Tea Party Convention in February 2010, which featured Alaska’s former Governor and Republican Vice Presidential Nominee, Sarah Palin as it’s keynote speaker.
He currently manages the Tea Party Nation website, writes several daily columns and is working on more projects than any one person should. He is a frequent guest on cable and broadcast news shows, including on Fox, MSNBC, CNN and others.